Quetzalcoatl

Author: Xu Xiaobin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The novel begins in the late Qing Dynasty and tells the dramatic and tumultuous fate of a family's five generations of women. The five generations of women, each with distinct personalities, replicate, mutate, and pursue within the vast changes of time and space, as well as through the inheritance of their bloodline. The novel employs multiple narrative techniques, with a plot that is (strange and mysterious), language like poetry and painting, and imagination as boundless as the sky. It reveals the unique spiritual essence of women's lives from a unique perspective. The magnificent hundred-year time span of The Feathered Serpent and its vast historical canvas, with the stories of the numerous women of the five generations appearing as if in relief, make this work a record-breaker in women's writing of the 1990s. Without a doubt, The Feathered Serpent is the most painstaking and transformative masterpiece in Xu Xiaobin's writing. The true significance of The Feathered Serpent may only become apparent many years later.